September 2014

When the daughter of the Governor of California (Joel Gretsch) is targeted by custom-made viruses assaulting both her computer and her biology, Walter (Elyes Gabel) and his team are brought in to find the bio-hacker before the sick young girl takes a turn for the worse. Paige (Katharine McPhee) isn’t alone in seeing how the sick girl’s plight effects Walter which forces the genius to open up about his sister (Emily Robinson, Camille Guaty) whose lifelong battle with MS is one problem Walter has never been able to solve.

Fretting about throwing out the first pitch at an Angels game, Howard (Simon Helberg) enlists the help of Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) and Raj (Kunal Nayyar) in an attempt not to make a complete fool out of himself. Despite all the practice he can stand, Howard is forced to admit his shortcomings. His out-of-the-box solution, while novel, doesn’t exactly endear him to the fans.

Bringing the Golden and Silver Age character to the Beware the Batman universe while putting its own spin on his story, “Unique” introduces Manhunter (Xander Berkeley), a government agent kept in suspended animation for 20 years while evil scientist Dr. Anatol Mykros and his shadow organization known only as The Council have created an army of cloned automatons from his DNA.

While Regina (Lana Parrilla) is tempted down a dark path dealing with Emma‘s (Jennifer Morrison) choice to bring Robin‘s (Sean Maguire) long-lost wife back in time with her from the past, the rest of Storybrooke has to deal with the other unforeseen consequence of Emma and Hook’s time-travel when Storybrooke gets a new visitor. Although Regina’s tale takes up a good portion of the season premiere, most of “A Tale of Two Sisters” deals with Elsa‘s (Georgina Haig) arrival in Storybrooke and the flashbacks with the Ice Queen and her sister Anna (Elizabeth Lail) explaining why Elsa walked through the door which Emma opened.